The New Arc

The North East Wildlife & Animal Rescue Centre

The North East Wildlife & Animal Rescue Centre is a small independent Charity, based just outside Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

We are a sanctuary and haven for many unwanted, abused and abandoned pets, including horses, goats, pigs, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs, hens and ducks. Our particular interest is in wildlife rehabilitation, and we have many years experience in hand-rearing orphan birds, and dealing with orphaned and injured mammals.

For more information, including what we do, where we are, and how to contact us, please visit our about page.

To build a "purpose built" animal hospital to cater for the many hundreds of orphaned and injured wild birds and animals that we take in every year Help Animal Hospital by The North East Wildlife & Animal Rescue Centre raise more on JustGiving ... See more

A Big thank you to Janis Wemyss for calling us (and Elizabeth Harley for giving her our number ) regarding an injured raptor in Stonehaven. Another big Thank you to Catriona Komlosi for sacrificing her evening meal tonight and driving out to meet me in Bridge of Don. Say hello to Lincoln, a Peregrine Falcon. We cannot find any obvious damage and hopefully nothing more serious than a concussion. We will have a better idea of his prognosis tomorrow. ... See more

What a lovely surprise this morning at the shop when The Co-op donated £269.92 which they had collected at the store!! 😱😍 Thank you sooooooooooooo much to the staff and customers for this wonderful donation which is very much appreciated xx ... See more

Eyes and ears open please folks, this wee one went missing yesterday and we had hoped there would be some news overnight, but she is still missing. Blackdog area Aberdeen

Still missing. Please share or help go looking if it’s safe to do so.

My baby Blue daschund has still not been found at blackdog beach. I will be back out at first light to see if she will come out if it is a bit quieter. She is very shy so if you see her don't try to catch her. Thanks to all that helped tonight. I'm sure I will find her in the morning. I will be there all day if not. ... See more

To build a "purpose built" animal hospital to cater for the many hundreds of orphaned and injured wild birds and animals that we take in every year Help Animal Hospital by The North East Wildlife & Animal Rescue Centre raise more on JustGiving ... See more

Keith here – Thought it was time for a wee update...... It’s been a fairly quiet start to the year with not too many incoming casualties. (Whew! ) However, there have been some notable situations and releases. Joseph the Roe Deer which arrived in the early hours on the first of January ( our first foot ) recovered from his head trauma and temporary blindness and was successfully released last Sunday. After a bit of messing about he quickly disappeared into the distance. Unfortunately no pics as it was getting to dark to film, but we are delighted to see him go as we know that most rescues are not prepared, or equipped to give these animals the time they need to recuperate and are often PTS instead. Both our Sparrow hawks (Flo and Isaac ) have also been released. Isaac‘s release appeared earlier on our page shooting off like a rocket and ‘Flo’s’ release wasn’t quite as planned. I had thought for some time that she was almost ready to go (despite earlier fears that she would become a resident here) however, she managed to scuttle past me when I opened the aviary door at feeding time and calmly flew 20 feet onto a nearby post. I immediately grabbed a net and managed to get within ten feet of her before she shot off down and over our field shelters into nearby trees without any obvious problems. The Little Auk that turned up also had a successful release after a bit of rest and a feed up. We also experienced our first Red Deer rescue. A fifteen pointer Stag that had managed to get its antlers stuck in a deer fence and had twisted around enough to totally entangle itself. A big thank you goes out to Vicki and Noel from Willows for giving me a call after they had been contacted about it and for their assistance. As it happens things went quite smoothly and with a pair of wire cutters we managed to free him without injury to either party. This morning we received a call about a seal pup on the main road between Newburgh and Collieston. According to the caller, the location was some distance from the water, which seemed unlikely to say the least, but I headed off to see if we could help. I immediately phoned in a report to BDMLR, and quickly received a reply from Lee Watson to say they were on their way. When I arrived the local police already had the situation under control and had set up a road block to ensure the pup was contained. (A big well done to them. They did all the right things and didn’t get fooled by the big soppy eyes and try to pick it up!) Knowing that more experienced specialists than myself were on their way all I did was to wait until the BDMLR team arrived and once they had ‘bagged’ the pup it was assessed and turned over to the SSPCA to be relocated to ‘Fishcross’ where it could be checked over and assessed for release. Well done...yet again to Lee Watson and Eilidh Watson for their quick response. Together they have done some wonderful work on behalf of the Ythan Seals! Once we have our wildlife A&E in action we can look forward to the next project of providing a facility for seals here at The New Arc. ... See more

Following storm Frank last year, when the centre suffered significant damage including our mobile home which housed many of our cats, The New Arc has received fantastic support from the general public. As a result, were able to provide a superb new home for all of our 38 resident cats.

Since then, we had a variety of projects continuing throughout the year, which will soon result in The New Arc being able to expand its rescue facilities significantly.

On April 1st (no fooling) we begin our 12th year as an official charity. During the past 11 years we have rescued over 7000 animals, ranging from domestic pets to exotics and, of course, our native wildlife. Our main concerns have always centred on wildlife and as we enter our 12th year we would like to focus on the needs of wildlife in particular.

Each year we accept hundreds of injured and orphaned birds and animals. We accept them all. Some are passed to us by the general public, some are passed to us by vets and other rescue centres. Some we refer on to our own vets, which may, in turn be passed on to specialist vets. No animal or bird is refused as a ‘pest species’ and every attempt is made to rehabilitate and release those who are fit to go.

As many of you will know, our own home has played host to a great many of the orphans we’ve taken in, meaning that throughout the coming spring we could be providing through-the-night care for several deer, squirrels, foxes and a variety of birds and other wildlife. However, year on year the numbers we take in are continuing to grow and we need to look ahead and plan to meet that growing need. Some of the animals we take in require extended stays at the centre to enable recuperation and allow us to equip them with the ability to fend for themselves once released.

As a result we are asking all our supporters to help us realise a dream that we had when we first set up The New Arc: To provide and equip a wildlife hospital specifically designed for wildlife care.

We have to be realistic and accept the fact that even the basics for such an ambitious project will require a huge amount of funding. As such, we have plans for a facility which would equip us to deal with all our first aid requirements, provide specialist housing and care for the increasing numbers of orphaned birds and mammals. We would also like to reach a position where we have the flexibility to expand if finances allow.

The more money we raise, the better the facilities we can provide. We have set an initial target of £30,000.00 – a huge amount! We already have some funds in place, specifically allocated to this project, which currently amounts to £7080.00.

This is a huge undertaking and we need help! We have a number of fund raising ideas in place and will announce details soon. We already appreciate the efforts our supporters and volunteers make on our behalf, so we are not asking anyone to send money (although we will not refuse it!). Instead, we are asking all our friends and supporters to think of ways that they can generate interest in our project, raise the profile of the work we do and come up with their own suggestions and fund raising ideas to discuss with us.

We have over 4000 likes on our Facebook page. If only one in ten of the people who like our page could raise £20.00 then we will reach our target. Please consider the huge impact this would have for our native wildlife and what it would mean for the work we do here at The New Arc.

Please continue to visit our website and follow our Facebook page. We look forward to keeping you all informed of our progress.

Kevin the Swan, Valentine the buzzard and an as yet, un-named tiny pigeon squab are just some of the wildlife casualties to have arrived at the centre in February.

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We hope you enjoy our site! Please do to visit us again - we will be updating regularly.

If you have any questions about animals, be it advice, wanting to find a new home for your pet, adoption or needing assistance with a rescue, please contact us either by telephone (0796 225 3867), Facebook, or contact form. We look forward to hearing from you!

Animal Hospital Fundraiser

We receive no government or lottery funding - donations keep the Arc afloat.
Whatever you can afford to donate will make an enormous difference to the animals in our care.

Opening Times

Please note we are not open for visits to come and see the animals.

Whilst we are happy to received injured wildlife at any time (it is always best to ring before arriving to give us your expected arrival time), we are not presently able to receive members of the public for tours.